Showing posts with label Engineering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Engineering. Show all posts
Friday, February 21, 2025

Peterborough manufacturing history

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 A city dominated by its cathedral; its life revolved around agriculture with regular markets controlled by the Dean & Chapter until the...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Northampton manufacturing history

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 In my perambulation around the manufacturing towns of Britain, I have normally found the presence of raw materials and water, ideally navig...
Friday, January 31, 2025

Huddersfield manufacturing history

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 Huddersfield provided a commercial centre at its famous Cloth Hall for the many thousands of home working wool weavers in the surrounding d...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

Newcastle and Gateshead manfacturing history

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 Coal was at the heart of the economy of Tyneside which, with its long navigable estuary, was able to ship many of the millions of tons prod...
Friday, December 13, 2024

Lessons learnt from a quarter of a millennium of British Manufacturing

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Text of talk to University of Lincoln engineering students – December 2024 I draw extensively on my books How Britain Shaped the Manufa...
Friday, November 22, 2024

London's 19th century tool makers

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For the Machine tools of various kinds had been used around the world for centuries; there is some evidence of a lathe being used in China i...
Monday, November 4, 2024

Swindon manufacturing history

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Swindon would become one of the great 19th century railway towns, but at the end of the 18th century it was a place largely passed by. Kenne...